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The travel diaries: Japanese Impressions part 8

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Follow my blog with Bloglovin And time has come to say goodbye to Japan. This is the final post, about our final day. We reserved a very special trip for the last day. The four us took Albus to see Nikko. And these are some of the photographs we took. Up to this point, we followed the traditional trail. We saw a trail that would lead us to a waterfall and thought "Why not?". Looks like the setting of a Tolkien book. The day didn't end well. The weather suddenly changed and it started raining and we heard way too many thunders.  As we hurried back to the station, on foot and without anything that could resemble a raincoat, the group got separated. Boys went on ahead and girls stayed behind. A car stopped and a middle aged japanese man invited Mariana and I to get in, to take cover. The scenario seems frightening and I didn't tell my parents about this until I was bac...

The travel diaries: China - days 1 and 2

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Hello everyone!! I finally got around to pick and edit the photos from my summer trip: ONE MONTH IN CHINA!!! If you know me or have been following the blog (or IG/FB/twitter), you'll know by now that I have a huge love for all things Asian, mainly chinese. One month travelling means I came back with thousands of photographs (I went to 8 different cities), so be prepared for longer posts! Days 1 and 2 I arrived in Beijing on July 31st and ready for my biggest adventure yet. It was a warm yet cloudy day, good for a visit to the Temple of Heaven. Like many other monuments in Beijing, it has a surrounding park, with pavilions and shaded corridors for everyone to relax and enjoy food or a nice game of mahjong.  The Temple itself was magnificent, the blue and green of the roofs contrasting perfectly with the typical chinese red and gold. Dinner that day was with some friends but I was just to shy to take pictures. It was delicious, I can guarantee.  Visiting the Yonghegong Llama Tem...